WHY ARE WE GETTING UGLIER?

A facial analyst and anthropologist named Shafee Hassan, who has a facial aesthetics consultancy firm QOVES in Sydney, Australia, received a question from a follower asking why an old high-school yearbook “contained so many attractive people?” and why people today aren’t as attractive. Mr. Hassan explained there were multiple theories, but the “most intuitive” to him was known as the functional matrix hypothesis (* Did they even try to come up with a better name?), which theorizes the “development of the face is dependent on the forces you put on it.” He points out that teenagers or high schoolers in the 1950s look “so much older” than they do now. He notes that the average person’s face is becoming increasingly disadvantaged by modern diets, sleeping patterns, pollutants and habits relating to jawline development and dental care, creating a greater inequality in “the attractives” vs “the unattractives.”
* I have a theory on why we’re getting uglier. It’s called the Theory of Yo Mama.
* Just wondering – how hot is this Shafee Hassan?
* I think we should put the blame where it lays: it’s the yearbook photographers today that are lousy.
* I don’t know if we’re getting more unattractive overall, but Gary Busey sure threw off the curve.
* It’s not a happy story that we’re getting uglier, but it is good news for Photoshop.